plasmodium
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The working group also discovered that the autofluorescent artemisinin-coumarin hybrids are able to destroy a certain drug-resistant malaria pathogen called plasmodium palcifarum.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
The RTS,S vaccine targets the one that is most deadly and most common in Africa: plasmodium falciparum.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2021
Gates wants to see the plasmodium at Appomattox.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2015
Scientists at GlaxoSmithKline began working in 1987 on a vaccine that targeted the most severe of the four strains of malaria, plasmodium falciparum.
From US News ● Aug. 14, 2015
The parasite develops within the living cells of the plant, forming a glairy mass of protoplasm known as the plasmodium, the form of which alters from time to time.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Neither plant nor animal, these single-cell amoebas feed on bacteria but aggregate when their food source becomes scarce to form glossy, bulbous, shape-shifting multicellular plasmodia that develop fruiting bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.
From Time Magazine Archive
No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man.
From Time Magazine Archive
How was it that no one asked himself how it was possible that the plasmodia could enter the current of the blood from the air?
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
